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Show Nat. Guard Moves to Gunnery Range For Second Phase of Annual Camo CAMP W. O. WILLIAMS. JORDAN JOR-DAN NARROWS Utah National Guard artillery units are spending spend-ing their final week of summer encampment participating in service practice with the huge eight-inch howitzers and 155 mm guns. Participating in the summer training program are Guaids-men Guaids-men from the 213th Field Artillery Artil-lery Battalion unit located in the Cedar City area. The unit is commanded com-manded by Lt. Col. Max S. Dal-ley. Dal-ley. Erampment for all units of the XI Corps Artillery began on I June 15 and will wind up June (29. DurirT their first week of train-ling train-ling artillery units went through a comprehensive schedule (if training in basic combat sub-i jects. These are subjects they have studied at armory drills during the past year and the training was climaxed wiiii examinations ex-aminations during the summer field training. Basic combat subjects Include such areas as explosives and demolitions, de-molitions, rigging, map reading, small unit tactics, drill, ceremonies ceremon-ies and parade, techniques of fire, individual day and night training, train-ing, land mine warfare, field fortifications for-tifications and others. Artillery units moved to the camp's vast gunnery ranges for their final week of training, which utilized both dry runs and actual firing with live ammunition. Three of the four artillery battalions bat-talions are equipped with the eight-inch self-propelled howitzer, howit-zer, including the 213th, and the fourth is equipped with the 155 mm. self propelled gun. The Guard Engineer units spent their first week in basic combat subjects. Most of these Unite moved "to the hills" for their final week of encampment, where they combined their training train-ing with highly useful road construction con-struction projects. Each of the three engineer battalions worked work-ed on a separate project: The Brighton to Midway road, and roads in Wheeler and American Fork Canyons. The encampment was highlighted high-lighted by visits from a number of civilian and military dignitaries. dignitar-ies. These Included members of the guard's honorary colonels advisory ad-visory corps, the Salt Lake Chamber Cham-ber of Commercce and several 'I-vic 'I-vic clubs. Several high-ranking generals from Headquarters, Sixth U. S. Army, Presidio of San Francisco, Inspected the field training or the National Guard units. These Included Lt. Gen. C. D. Palmer, Jr., commanding general; Maj. Gen. John M. Iiinns, chief of staff, and Maj. Gen. Robert L. Howze, Jr.; deputy commanding general. |